Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,528 6,267 6,826
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.39% 22.44% 20.87%
As % of the General category 32.78% 34.98% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,297 4,195 4,444
10th Percentile £360 £338 £365
25th Percentile £450 £420 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £793 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £537 £575
% change year-on-year +2.42% -6.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 98 116
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £15.11
25th Percentile £19.89 £18.19 £23.82
Median hourly rate £43.96 £28.47 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +54.44% -16.89% +33.22%
75th Percentile - £55.06 £55.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.13 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £28.43 £33.00
% change year-on-year +54.63% -13.85% +28.35%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 26,014 17,915 19,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.11% 64.16% 58.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,244 11,357 11,532
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.63% -2.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,033 912
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.17 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -33.38% +34.82%
75th Percentile £56.25 £45.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.01 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.35% -28.14% +27.27%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 27 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,150 £600 +1.69% 9,896
North of England 0 1,336 £514 +11.14% 1,859
South East -1 742 £500 -2.72% 2,083
North West -1 640 £505 +12.11% 1,018
Yorkshire 0 618 £525 +5.00% 629
Midlands -2 606 £500 +5.26% 1,088
West Midlands -2 453 £515 -0.91% 663
South West -5 352 £525 -4.55% 883
East of England +2 202 £555 -3.48% 589
East Midlands -2 150 £500 +19.76% 423
North East -7 71 £538 +22.51% 222
South Coast - 1 £450 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 290 (3.40%) Confluence
2 237 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 79 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 57 (0.67%) Apache
6 42 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.33%) CMS
8 24 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 21 (0.25%) SAS
10 15 (0.18%) Camunda
10 15 (0.18%) IIS
10 15 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.11%) CICS
12 8 (0.094%) Ethereum
13 6 (0.070%) Appian
13 6 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.070%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.059%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.059%) WordPress
Applications
1 468 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 190 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 176 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 127 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 71 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 54 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.094%) Trello
9 7 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.082%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.047%) Sketch
10 4 (0.047%) Windchill
11 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.035%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.035%) Notion
11 3 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 332 (3.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 111 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
3 101 (1.18%) NetSuite
4 94 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
5 76 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
6 73 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
7 61 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
8 59 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
9 46 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
10 43 (0.50%) Workday HCM
11 42 (0.49%) SAP FI
12 38 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 34 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
14 33 (0.39%) Aladdin
15 31 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
16 29 (0.34%) SAP CO
17 24 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
17 24 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
17 24 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
18 23 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,384 (16.23%) Azure
2 960 (11.26%) AWS
3 586 (6.87%) Power Platform
4 482 (5.65%) GCP
5 309 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
6 290 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
7 289 (3.39%) GitHub
8 277 (3.25%) SaaS
9 216 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
10 215 (2.52%) Entra ID
11 193 (2.26%) Snowflake
12 141 (1.65%) Serverless
13 126 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
14 123 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 117 (1.37%) dbt
16 112 (1.31%) Amazon S3
17 107 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
18 100 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
19 98 (1.15%) OCI
20 95 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 160 (1.88%) Firewall
2 142 (1.67%) Network Security
3 100 (1.17%) VPN
4 75 (0.88%) DNS
5 49 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 48 (0.56%) DHCP
7 47 (0.55%) WAN
8 43 (0.50%) BGP
9 36 (0.42%) SSL
10 31 (0.36%) Multicast
10 31 (0.36%) VLAN
11 28 (0.33%) Wireless
12 26 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.29%) LAN
14 24 (0.28%) OSPF
15 23 (0.27%) SAN
16 21 (0.25%) Internet
17 20 (0.23%) HTTP
18 15 (0.18%) Broadband
19 14 (0.16%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (5.55%) Power BI
2 250 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 230 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 165 (1.93%) Metadata
5 142 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 122 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
7 115 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 106 (1.24%) Tableau
9 81 (0.95%) NoSQL
10 68 (0.80%) BigQuery
11 66 (0.77%) Oracle Database
12 62 (0.73%) MongoDB
13 53 (0.62%) Power Query
14 49 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
15 47 (0.55%) Delta Lake
16 46 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
17 39 (0.46%) Big Data
18 35 (0.41%) RDBMS
19 33 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
19 33 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 573 (6.72%) JIRA
2 269 (3.15%) Git
3 155 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 103 (1.21%) GitLab
5 61 (0.72%) Selenium
6 47 (0.55%) JUnit
7 35 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 34 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 33 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.38%) Claude Code
11 31 (0.36%) Maven
11 31 (0.36%) REST Assured
12 29 (0.34%) Visual Studio
13 28 (0.33%) Gradle
14 24 (0.28%) Cypress.io
15 23 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
16 22 (0.26%) ERwin
16 22 (0.26%) Postman
17 18 (0.21%) Mockito
17 18 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 2,685 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 1,836 (21.53%) Banking
3 1,251 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 445 (5.22%) Public Sector
5 430 (5.04%) Legal
6 373 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
7 335 (3.93%) Investment Banking
8 330 (3.87%) Retail
9 311 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
10 310 (3.64%) Front Office
11 286 (3.35%) Financial Institution
12 183 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 181 (2.12%) Manufacturing
14 174 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
15 167 (1.96%) Marketing
16 156 (1.83%) General Ledger
17 153 (1.79%) Billing
18 141 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
19 134 (1.57%) Local Government
20 131 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,202 (14.09%) Analyst
2 988 (11.59%) Senior
3 859 (10.07%) Developer
4 856 (10.04%) Lead
5 730 (8.56%) Architect
6 611 (7.16%) Business Analyst
7 579 (6.79%) Project Manager
8 567 (6.65%) Consultant
9 282 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
10 261 (3.06%) Data Engineer
11 226 (2.65%) Financial Analyst
12 196 (2.30%) Senior Manager
13 184 (2.16%) Senior Developer
14 172 (2.02%) Java Developer
15 171 (2.01%) Data Analyst
15 171 (2.01%) IT Manager
16 169 (1.98%) Programme Manager
17 166 (1.95%) Accountant
18 153 (1.79%) Finance Manager
19 141 (1.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (4.05%) Terraform
2 340 (3.99%) REST
3 251 (2.94%) .NET
4 233 (2.73%) Kafka
5 226 (2.65%) React
6 218 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 173 (2.03%) Middleware
8 164 (1.92%) Spring
9 162 (1.90%) Spring Boot
10 127 (1.49%) PySpark
11 119 (1.40%) RESTful
12 90 (1.06%) OAuth
13 85 (1.00%) JSON
13 85 (1.00%) XML
14 82 (0.96%) Redux
15 79 (0.93%) SOAP
16 71 (0.83%) HTML
16 71 (0.83%) Node.js
17 69 (0.81%) Web Services
18 68 (0.80%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 479 (5.62%) Onboarding
2 456 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 411 (4.82%) Cloud Native
4 243 (2.85%) Management Information System
5 220 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 208 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 186 (2.18%) AI Agents
8 181 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
9 177 (2.08%) Virtual Team
10 170 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
11 166 (1.95%) Derivative
12 159 (1.86%) Data Centre
13 146 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
14 145 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 120 (1.41%) Fixed Income
16 114 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
17 108 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
18 100 (1.17%) Equities
19 93 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
20 92 (1.08%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 350 (4.10%) Windows
2 286 (3.35%) Linux
3 142 (1.67%) Unix
4 83 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 56 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 37 (0.43%) Android
9 31 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 30 (0.35%) Solaris
11 29 (0.34%) zOS
12 11 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 11 (0.13%) VMS
13 10 (0.12%) AIX
14 7 (0.082%) Oracle Linux
15 6 (0.070%) HPUX
15 6 (0.070%) SUSE
16 5 (0.059%) CentOS
17 4 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
18 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,381 (27.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,797 (21.07%) Agile
3 1,159 (13.59%) AI
4 1,156 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
5 1,151 (13.50%) Migration
6 1,014 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,001 (11.74%) CI/CD
8 960 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 899 (10.54%) Analytics
10 894 (10.48%) DevOps
11 846 (9.92%) Decision-Making
12 815 (9.56%) Roadmaps
13 814 (9.55%) ERP
14 774 (9.08%) Validation
15 693 (8.13%) Project Management
16 657 (7.70%) Data Modelling
17 646 (7.58%) Change Management
18 634 (7.43%) User Acceptance Testing
19 620 (7.27%) Risk Management
20 592 (6.94%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,189 (13.94%) SQL
2 1,079 (12.65%) Python
3 567 (6.65%) Java
4 341 (4.00%) C#
5 266 (3.12%) PowerShell
6 238 (2.79%) JavaScript
7 209 (2.45%) TypeScript
8 142 (1.67%) Bash
9 98 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 78 (0.91%) Shell Script
11 59 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 58 (0.68%) C++
13 56 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 54 (0.63%) Bicep
15 49 (0.57%) Korn
16 46 (0.54%) Go
17 38 (0.45%) Scala
18 35 (0.41%) Kotlin
19 33 (0.39%) VBA
20 32 (0.38%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 675 (7.92%) Security Cleared
2 661 (7.75%) Degree
3 474 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 245 (2.87%) PMP
5 210 (2.46%) PMI Certification
6 195 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 181 (2.12%) ACCA
8 159 (1.86%) CIMA
9 130 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 127 (1.49%) CISSP
11 120 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 108 (1.27%) Azure Certification
13 74 (0.87%) AWS Certification
14 73 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
15 70 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 62 (0.73%) CISM
17 48 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
18 44 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 38 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 37 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 632 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 374 (4.39%) QA
3 315 (3.69%) PMO
4 184 (2.16%) GDPR
5 127 (1.49%) NIST
6 110 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 103 (1.21%) GRC
8 99 (1.16%) Accessibility
9 90 (1.06%) IFRS
10 85 (1.00%) SLA
11 62 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 52 (0.61%) ISO 20022
13 45 (0.53%) GAAP
14 40 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 33 (0.39%) SEPA
16 32 (0.38%) Solvency II
17 27 (0.32%) COBIT
18 24 (0.28%) MiFID
19 19 (0.22%) Basel III
19 19 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 225 (2.64%) Active Directory
1 225 (2.64%) Docker
2 85 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 27 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.29%) vSphere
6 20 (0.23%) RACF
7 16 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.11%) NFS
11 7 (0.082%) IAG
12 5 (0.059%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.047%) ACF2
14 3 (0.035%) GPFS
14 3 (0.035%) KVM
14 3 (0.035%) Time Sharing Option
15 2 (0.023%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.023%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 403 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 168 (1.97%) Ansible
3 83 (0.97%) Grafana
4 78 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 61 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 59 (0.69%) SCCM
6 59 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.29%) Control-M
7 25 (0.29%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.19%) Argo
10 14 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
11 12 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 10 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 10 (0.12%) Packer
12 10 (0.12%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.094%) Istio
14 8 (0.094%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.094%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,265 (14.83%) Microsoft
2 726 (8.51%) Oracle
3 675 (7.92%) SAP
4 329 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 316 (3.71%) Databricks
6 217 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 203 (2.38%) Google
8 168 (1.97%) IBM
9 131 (1.54%) VMware
10 129 (1.51%) Workday
11 114 (1.34%) Cisco
12 105 (1.23%) Splunk
13 82 (0.96%) CyberArk
14 79 (0.93%) OpenAI
15 68 (0.80%) Ariba
16 55 (0.64%) Bloomberg
17 51 (0.60%) Murex
18 50 (0.59%) Citrix
19 49 (0.57%) Red Hat
19 49 (0.57%) Sage